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[mattiewheels]

No Swimming to Cambodia.....hm.

 

[J2d]

I'm grateful that we have gotten three outlaw samurai and now the samurai trilogy but I sure hope this doesn't mean that they will hold off on sword of doom. I need it badly.

 

[Ridley327]

I really think the hate against the first two Chaplin covers is very unwarranted. While I don't think Moss' cover for The Great Dictator is the best, it's certainly interesting and Sam Smith's Modern Times cover is wonderful, but then again I think the fact that so many people whine about covers so much is very stupid. I should have made the OT tagline "the cover is shit" instead of "insert title here".

This is my problem with the Modern Times cover: it's a film with some of the most iconic imagery known in the medium, and they went with a headshot with two crappy-looking gears over Chaplin's eyes.

 

[omgkitty]

I have added all of the new titles to the OP and have included the new covers here. Hopefully The Samurai Trilogy covers will be just as awesome as the rest of the batch for June. I wonder what the hold up is?

 

[ohhthegore]

I really like the cover for Shallow Grave, is the movie any good?

 

[Sleepy]

GREAT covers this month.

Especially Shallow Grave's, which is AMAHZING.

Reminds me of this:

Not really excited by June...

 

[Jo Shishido's Cheeks]

Might just be me but The 39 Steps cover doesn't seem evocative of the film. Like, at all.
I realise the cover is replicating an actual scene from the film but it seems a forceful ham-fisted way of unnecessary linking this film with North By Northwest and it's disappointing.

 

[Ridley327]

Might just be me but The 39 Steps cover doesn't seem evocative of the film. Like, at all.
I realise the cover is replicating an actual scene from the film but it seems a forceful ham-fisted way of unnecessary linking this film with North By Northwest and it's disappointing.

On the other hand,

 

[Jo Shishido's Cheeks]

Hey anything showing Robert Donat's magnificent moustache is a winner!

 

[DeadTrees]

I really like the cover for Shallow Grave, is the movie any good?

Take A Simple Plan, add a shoestring budget, a lot of style and nasty British venom, and subtract the brain-damaged script and atrocious performances. There you go!

Not a deep movie or anything, but it doesn't really need to be, if you know what I mean. I do wonder if the brief shot of male bits will be censored, as The Last Temptation of Christ was.

fake edit: Pretty sure the typeface on the cover is the same one used in the opening credits. It's always nice to see cover art that doesn't use the same twenty fonts everyone else does.

 

[Sleepy]

Just watched Belle de Jour. Very good...After the film I watch the supplementary trailers and it is amazing how bad the footage was. If I ever question the validity of buying Blus again, you guys can ban me from the thread. It is shocking how much restoration work probably goes into these.

 

[Mifune]

I really like the cover for Shallow Grave, is the movie any good?

It's a soulless and stylish bit of nothing. Never really understood why people liked it.

 

[Lafiel]

It's a soulless and stylish bit of nothing. Never really understood why people liked it.

Sounds like a Danny Boyle film.

 

[swoon]

I really like the cover for Shallow Grave, is the movie any good?

no. it's really awful.

it's really lame how they separated the spalding gray stuff. unless that documentary is super cheap - it should have been an extra.

 

[omgkitty]

Criterion announced last week with the other announcements that Harold and Maude is being moved back to June 12th instead of it's original April announcement. It's kind of too bad seeing as besides Late Spring, April is looking kind of boring as far as releases go.

 

[omgkitty]

The Samurai Trilogy cover has been posted!

 

[TheKaeptain]

The Samurai Trilogy cover has been posted!

Yes! Holy shit yes.

 

[Ridley327]

Fantastic cover!

 

[ohhthegore]

Waiting for someone to complain about that amazing cover

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Can't recall if anyone was feelin' the MoC covers from previous months, but they're starting to offer limited edition 30x40 posters similar to Criterion.

http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/offers/posters.html

500 copies for Indemnity and Evil; 1,000 for Metropolis.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

I can get behind those. Yowza.

 

[Maklershed]

That Metropolis poster is amazing.

 

[broadwayrock]

They have a bunch of unreleased ones too:

 

[mattiewheels]

I just bought that Metropolis poster through pure reflex, my brain didn't catch up till I got the confirmation, ha.

 

[BaronLundi]

Probably getting the Metropolis one (although I like Double Indemnity a lot as well) along with pre-ordering Mizoguchi goodness.

My wallet cries each time they have a sale... So many good stuff.

Has anyone seen Imamura's Profound desires of the gods ? Hesitating...

 

[omgkitty]

I had a question about MoC's Le Silence de la mer blu-ray. On Amazon.co.uk it says that it is region free, so is that both the blu-ray and DVD? I know some of their releases are region locked and others aren't and just wanted to be sure.

Edit: Just read the DVDBeaver review and it seems the blu-ray is region free while the DVD itself is region-locked.

 

[Guzim]

Waiting for someone to complain about that amazing cover

If anything, it's too good.

 

[Jo Shishido's Cheeks]

Waiting for someone to complain about that amazing cover

You have to admit that the composition is just a little awkward...

 

[big ander]

Can't recall if anyone was feelin' the MoC covers from previous months, but they're starting to offer limited edition 30x40 posters similar to Criterion.

http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/offers/posters.html



500 copies for Indemnity and Evil; 1,000 for Metropolis.

I want this Touch of Evil poster very badly, wish I had $35 to spare.

 

[Zia]

Masters of Cinema releasing Birth of a Nation later this year. Is this public domain? I would prefer it to the Kino release. Still bitter about not having a region-free player when the MoC Metropolis SteelBook was available.

 

[Shiv47]

Masters of Cinema releasing Birth of a Nation later this year. Is this public domain? I would prefer it to the Kino release. Still bitter about not having a region-free player when the MoC Metropolis SteelBook was available.

The movie itself is public domain, but whatever restoration they're using would not be, if that makes sense.

 

[Zia]

Yeah, I didn't realize there'd been a major resto.

 

[lazybones18]

Just a heads-up: Best Buy, depending on which store you go to, seems to have a couple of Criterion Blu-Rays available for purchase. The store I went to today had some movies to choose from, although the selections available seem more geared towards American films than foreign, and they were being sold for $29.99 each

 

[ohhthegore]

Just a heads-up: Best Buy, depending on which store you go to, seems to have a couple of Criterion Blu-Rays available for purchase. The store I went to today had some movies to choose from, although the selections available seem more geared towards American films than foreign, and they were being sold for $29.99 each

blahh I might as well stick with Amazon unless they decide to have a sale

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

A Simple Plan has atrocious performances? Wha?

Edit: Danny Boyle existed to make Trainspotting. He just never figured out how to make anything as good.

 

[DeadTrees]

A Simple Plan has atrocious performances? Wha?

Bill Paxton's voiceovers were as fake as a three dollar bill, never mind when he's onscreen trying to like, act and stuff. What an awful piece of miscasting! Go ahead, listen to his read of "OH GOD, HE'S DEAD!", tell me that's not right out of a Saturday Night Live skit where everyone's trying not to crack up.

Bridget Fonda wasn't much better. Mind you, the tin-eared screenplay didn't do anyone any favors. "I know you ain't pulling down that much at the feed store." *cringe*

fake edit: If you weren't morally offended at Criterion publishing a Brian De Palma thriller, you'll probably have a good time with Shallow Grave. If not, I'll gladly refund the cost of reading this post.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

A Simple Plan has atrocious performances? Wha?

Edit: Danny Boyle existed to make Trainspotting. He just never figured out how to make anything as good.

Time to give it up, Snowy. I don't know who started this Danny Boyle hate train, but I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here strapped to the tracks.

 

[big ander]

definite buy.
Kindergarten Cop

SYNOPSIS: Historically, the policier and the family comedy were two distinct categories. Then, in 1990, Kindergarten Cop gave us all a lesson in genre revisionism. With muscular sensitivity, Hollywood’s last action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger embodies detective John Kimble, who is compelled to go undercover as a teacher of five-year-olds in order to catch a ponytailed drug dealer. Though it’s distinguished by pulse-pounding suspense, a Crayola-bright palette by cinematographer Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver), and trenchant observations about education in the Bush I era, the film’s emotional center is Schwarzenegger’s gruff yet good-tempered interaction with a class full of precocious scamps, including a tumor-forewarning death-obsessive and a genitalia expert. By leavening a children’s film with enough violence to please even the most cold-hearted bastard, director Ivan Reitman shows that he refuses to color inside the lines.

DISC FEATURES

CONTINUITY-ASSISTANT-APPROVED THREE-DISC SPECIAL EDITION:

New high-definition digital restoration of the 1990 director’s cut, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
New audio commentary featuring Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, author of It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Can Teach Us
Excerpts from the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps: “Ivan Reitman”
Kindergarten Cops Today, a new hour-long documentary featuring former New York City police detectives Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci, former San Francisco police inspector Dave Toschi, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
From “Fingers” to Finger-Painting, an interview with cinematographer Michael Chapman
Archival video of Schwarzenegger’s acceptance speeches for the Favorite Movie Actor award at the 1989 and 1991 Kids’ Choice Awards
The Kids Aren’t All Right, an analysis of all the cuts made to ensure a PG-13 rating
More than six hundred minutes of rare behind-the-scenes and archival footage
Seven theatrical trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by former police reporter and creator of The Wire David Simon and a reprint of James Agee’s original review of the film

bonus: Kurosawa visits the set

 

[Guzim]

I think it's funnier than the art for that is better than Criterion's most recent efforts.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I think it's funnier than the art for that is better than Criterion's most recent efforts.

Heh, no kidding.

 

[Jo Shishido's Cheeks]

The fact we get neither art nor plentiful extras as good as those listed is the best part.

 

[canoli2006]

Criterion has to do a Kindergarten Cop blu-ray now. It's a goof that has to become a reality.

 

[yacobod]

kinda sad that the kindergarten cop art is better than most of their recent releases.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

kinda sad that the kindergarten cop art is better than most of their recent releases.

yeah way better jordan crane covers lol smh

 

[nicerdicer]

dear god I hope this actually happens. would buy on day one

 

[Risette]

yeah way better jordan crane covers lol smh

Are you able to actually defend these covers (as for which ones you're talking about I don't know, did "Jordan Crane" do all of the recent covers???) rather than just namedropping an artist as if talented people aren't able to misfire (sometimes multiple times!!) and expecting us to know who they are and what they've done or am I just expecting too much from you

 

[Alucrid]

Kindergarten Cop shall be mine.

 

[Kagari]

April Fools, guys.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Are you able to actually defend these covers (as for which ones you're talking about I don't know, did "Jordan Crane" do all of the recent covers???) rather than just namedropping an artist as if talented people aren't able to misfire (sometimes multiple times!!) and expecting us to know who they are and what they've done or am I just expecting too much from you

If this is a for real question, he drew the Harold And Maude cover.

 

[bud]

definite buy.
Kindergarten Cop

[/IMG]

holy shit, that's the greatest cover ever made. i'm not even joking around.

i wish it was real.

did they make it themselves or was it taken from somewhere else?